India will wish to paintings on their execution abilities and get rid of the dependancy of conceding comfortable objectives as a way to style good fortune in a hectic calendar yr, that incorporates the Commonwealth Video games and the Asiad, stated Tokyo Olympic bronze medal-winning hockey avid gamers Shamsher Singh and Hardik Singh.
8-time champions India rewrote historical past on the Tokyo Video games remaining yr by way of successful an Olympic hockey medal after 41 years, defeating Germany 5-4 within the bronze medal contest. However since then it’s been a blended bag for the Manpreet Singh-led aspect because it did not shield its Asian Champions Trophy identify in Dhaka after which slumped to 2-5 and 3-5 defeats by the hands of lower-ranked aspects — France and Spain — within the FIH Professional League.
“Tactically, we performed higher than our first fit towards Spain within the remaining sport. They scored some simple objectives and we did not avail our possibilities,” striker Shamsher stated in a digital press convention on Friday.
“We performed smartly in al the ones suits, our pace was once just right, we additionally made comebacks, however conceded simple objectives…We wish to paintings on execution a little extra.”
My father has installed lot of effort to assist me succeed in Indian staff: ladies’s hockey participant Navneet Kaur
A member of the Indian ladies’s hockey staff which claimed a historical fourth-place end on the Tokyo Olympics, ahead Navneet Kaur says it was once the relentless efforts of her father which helped her to play for the nationwide staff.
“I at all times had a really perfect pastime in sports activities since my early life. My father sought after me to be a cricketer, however there was once no cricket in my place of origin – Shahabad,” Navneet stated in ‘Hockey Te Charcha’ — a podcast sequence initiated by way of Hockey India.
“There was once a faculty in entrance of my area the place hockey was once performed and that’s the place I began taking part in the game.
“My father, who used to paintings in a TV repairing store, has installed a large number of effort to assist me succeed in the Indian staff.”
The 26-year-old from Haryana had scored a past due purpose to assist India beat Eire 1-0 within the crew level and stay their hopes alive for a spot within the quarterfinals at Olympics remaining yr.